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The process to correct and clarify House Enrolled Act 1006, the massive piece of legislation overhauling the state’s
criminal code, will begin Aug. 15 at the first meeting of the Indiana General Assembly’s Criminal Law and Sentencing
Policy Study Committee.

Convicted former attorney William Conour’s possessions in his foreclosed Carmel home, including original artwork and
a collection of premium wine and champagne, could be sold with proceeds directed toward a court fund established for victim
restitution according to a joint motion filed in federal court.

A Fulton County man who filed a writ of habeas corpus claiming he was falsely imprisoned won a reversal of a clarified sentencing
order Tuesday, with one Court of Appeals judge saying he should be freed entirely.

A majority of nine 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judges narrowly denied rehearing en banc for an Indiana man whose sentence
was erroneously calculated. A dissenting judge called the case a “miscarriage of justice.”

A Tippecanoe County man whose sentence enhancement for being a habitual offender was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court
– but later re-imposed after a retrial – was unable to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that his retrial
was barred by res judicata.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Indiana man’s convictions and 360-month sentence for drug-related offenses,
rejecting his claims that his right to a speedy trial was violated and the starting time of his offenses was incorrectly determined
by the District Court.

A Fort Wayne woman who kept more than 100 cats between two properties in deplorable conditions had her sentence for multiple
counts of criminal mischief and animal cruelty upheld by the Indiana Court of Appeals. The judges declined to revise her sentence
because it was appropriate given her character and the nature of the offense.

A man sentenced to 14 years in prison for his convictions on multiple felony gun and drug charges will still have to serve
the time, but the court must revise the sentencing order to explain why one conviction was ordered to be served consecutive
to the others.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a Franklin Circuit judge’s decision to require a defendant to pay restitution and
a fine after he entered into an open plea agreement on a burglary charge. But the judges instructed trial courts to consider
apportioning the amount of restitution among co-perpetrators in relation to each person’s contribution to the victim’s
loss.

Although an Indiana man determined how much and how often his buyers received methamphetamine as well as pressured them to
sell, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded his sentence should not have been enhanced because his actions were not coercive.

Because his guilty plea included a fixed sentence, a man who pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge is precluded from
challenging his sentence by direct appeal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. This also prevents him from challenging his
sentence under Ind. Post-Conviction Rule 2.

A federal prison sentence of more than 33 years was upheld Monday for a career criminal convicted of leading police on a chase,
assaulting an officer until he lost consciousness and staging an armed, four-hour standoff at an Indianapolis hotel in August
2011.

An Indianapolis man sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of child pornography and a felony gun charge had his most
serious conviction vacated and his sentence reduced to no more than four years.

An Elkhart felon’s defense that he was drunk at the time he told police that guns they confiscated from his girlfriend’s
apartment belonged to him failed to sway the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which did find another error and order him to be
resentenced.

A post-conviction court correctly denied relief to a man on his felony fraud conviction after determining that his felony
failure to register conviction should be vacated, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Anthony McCullough pleaded guilty to
the separate charges in one agreement.